administrative organization and delicate diplomatic relations with Top Brass -- British, American and Chinese ; ;

Frommer's, the American travel guidebook series, listed Belfast as the only United Kingdom destination in its Top 12 Destinations to Visit in 2009.

* 1949 – Billy Gibbons, American guitarist ( ZZ Top )

In 1991, EMI reissued the " American Pie " single in the United Kingdom and McLean performed on Top of the Pops.

In 2008, New York City radio station Q104. 3 FM WAXQ named Don McLean's " American Pie " number 37 in their 2008 Top 1, 043 Songs Of All Time listener-generated countdown.

* 1942 – World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

The film also appeared in another AFI Top 100 list: it placed at 11th on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list of the top American films.

When the American magazine Cinema asked Stanley Kubrick in 1963 to name his favorite films, the film director listed I Vitelloni as number one in his Top 10 list.

In June 2008, AFI revealed its " Ten Top Ten "-the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres-after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

In 2000, she appeared in Woman on Top in the lead female role as Isabelle, a world-class chef who has suffered from motion sickness since birth, her first American lead role.

The album eventually became multi-platinum in the spring and summer of 1989, and it spawned five American Top Three singles, four of them # 1s ( three in 1989 and one in 1990 ): " Straight Up ", " Forever Your Girl ", " Cold Hearted ", and " Opposites Attract ".

Hamlisch's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag " The Entertainer " won an Academy Award, and was an American Top 40 hit in 1974, reaching # 3 on 18 May.

In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its " Ten Top Ten "— the best ten films in ten " classic " American film genres — after polling over 1, 500 people from the creative community.

The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, " Earth Angel ( Will You Be Mine )", which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts.

1983 saw the release of Speaking in Tongues, a commercial breakthrough that produced the band's only American Top 10 hit, " Burning Down the House ".

ZZ Top is an American rock band from Houston, Texas.

* October 15 – Cole Porter, American composer ( You're The Top ) ( b. 1891 )

** Dusty Hill, American bassist ( ZZ Top )

* June 11 – Frank Beard, American drummer ( ZZ Top )

* December 16 – Billy Gibbons, American guitarist ( ZZ Top )

** WWII: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

** Longtime radio music countdown show American Top 40 debuts on 5 U. S. stations with Casey Kasem as host.

** Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor ( America's Top Forty )

It was " Over My Head " which first put Fleetwood Mac on American radio and into the national Top 20.

-- I, too, congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention.

" The Date of the Inscription of Claudius on the Arch of Ticinum " American Journal of Archaeology 40 ( 3 ): 314 – 322.

The organization is active in integrating olim from South America and the former Soviet Union into Israeli society -- native Israelis and olim from non-English speaking countries now make up about 60 % of the Israeli Masorti population, the remaining 40 % are North American olim.

While these tests are not required in US, an estimated 75 – 90 % of the blood supply is currently tested for Chagas, including all units collected by the American Red Cross, which accounts for 40 % of the U. S. blood supply.

Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

This produced more economical engines with earlier four-cylinder designs rated at 40 horsepower ( 30 kW ) and six-cylinder designs rated as low as 80 horsepower ( 60 kW ), compared with the large volume V-8 American engines with power ratings in the range from 250 to 350 hp, some even over 400hp.

Most numerous among those using the islands were British and American sealers, where typically between 40 and 50 ships were engaged in exploiting fur seals.

In the summer of 1779 at Washington's direction, General John Sullivan carried out a scorched earth campaign that destroyed at least 40 Iroquois villages in central and upstate New York ; the Indians were British allies who had been raiding American settlements on the frontier.

From 1975 to 1995, the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history rose from 31 % to 41 %, while the proportion of political historians fell from 40 % to 30 %.

The racial makeup of the town was 95. 41 % White, 0. 71 % Black or African American, 0. 19 % Native American, 0. 22 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 2. 03 % from other races, and 1. 40 % from two or more races.

" Early American Life 9 ( 1978 ): 40 – 43, 71 – 72.

The racial makeup of the county was 88. 54 % White, 7. 92 % Black or African American, 0. 40 % Native American, 0. 53 % Asian, 0. 04 % Pacific Islander, 0. 83 % from other races, and 1. 74 % from two or more races.

Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 40.

" Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 40: 21-658.

The racial makeup of the town was 97. 40 % White, 0. 39 % Native American, 0. 87 % Asian, 0. 16 % from other races, and 1. 18 % from two or more races.

Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40.

According to the 2010 Census, 68. 4 % of the population was White ( 40. 5 % non-Hispanic white ), 2. 1 % was Black or African American, 9. 4 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 1. 4 % Asian, 0. 1 % Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 3. 7 % from two or more races.

The single, " True Faith ", with its surreal video, became a hit on MTV and the band's first American top 40 hit.

* 26-Shawn Lane, 40, American guitarist and composer.

About 40 % came from New Zealand, 21 % from American Samoa and 7 % from the United States.

): On American Airlines Flight 1238, en route from Los Angeles to Chicago, a man with severe mental problems stormed the cockpit 40 minutes before landing in Chicago, causing the plane to drop sharply and causing a panic.